November 2009

Social media as self actualization: how has it launched you?

As social networking renders overseas professional women visible and relevant, it’s a powerful tool of self-actualization.

Hybrid domesticities: an artist mixes the professional and the personal

borderlands

When an emerging American artist moves to Turkey and starts a family, she navigates new definitions of career and home life.

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Strategic love: the embassy of intercultural marriage

community

If marriage is the smallest unit of a community, then cross-cultural couples are ambassadors, peace-makers, and change-agents.

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The twinge of heritage: ghostly urges of a post-immigration life

American culture

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust.

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Designing la dolce vita

career

A former officer in the U.S. Navy-turned expat discovers life design is necessary for expat women as military personnel transitioning to civilian life

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Does expat lit deserve its own shelf?

ANASTASIA ASHMAN

Expatriate literature may be stocked in the travel-memoir-classics section, but does it deserve a shelf of its own? Highlights from a week of Twitter #litchat about the unique depths of outsider cultural views from the inside

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